TEXANS: Invest in Your FuturePut the Spotlight on Solar Energy

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Your electric bill is creeping up, or it may be soaring higher. Your pocketbook jitters could be soothed in the future with solar energy. Really, it's a powerful option. IF, Texas does the right thing.

Help us get the spotlight on the potential of solar energy. Right now staff at the Texas Public Utilities Commission is ignoring (maybe even reducing attention to) solar energy while it is debating new rules for expanding renewable capacity in the state. A recent staff proposal went so far as actually suggesting reductions in renewable investments in Texas by undercutting the 68,000 Texas customers who are buying green power through voluntary programs.

For the good of the grid, write the Commissioners and tell them Texas should include provisions for solar energy on homes and businesses, and should increase renewable energy.

Senate Bill 20, which passed last year, was supposed to create a common-sense market structure to build on the success of past programs and diversify renewable energy resources in Texas. It's time for people across Texas have more access to renewable energy, and solar energy systems installed on homes and businesses would result in a stronger grid and stabilized energy prices.

Unfortunately, staff at the Public Utilities Commission has released a draft "strawman" that:

Will reduce the overall amount of renewable energy that would be installed in Texas

Will not result in the development of solar energy in Texas

Will not increase the reliability of the grid with distributed solar power, and

Misses the opportunity to create new renewable energy jobs and businesses in Texas.

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